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Psychological assessment

The psychological assessment section is focused on the advancement of psychological science such as practice and ethics of psychological assessment in its various contexts (including work on issues related to psychological measurement and psychometrics, adaptation, development, validation and standardization of instruments), the use of instruments for the purposes of psychological assessment, psychodiagnostic, evaluation of interventions or programs and case studies involving the use of instruments.

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  1. This study aimed to evidence the validity and reliability of the Ecuadorian version of the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale, one of the most studied concepts of positive psychology. The adaptation process includ...

    Authors: Andrea M. Vinueza-Solórzano, Ronald Enrique Campoverde, Cecilia Alexandra Portalanza-Chavarría, Clarissa P. P. de Freitas, Claudio Simon Hutz and Ana Claudia Souza Vazquez
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:3
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  2. Persistence involves the intention to maintain efforts when faced with obstacles and challenges, in order to achieve a specific goal. The Rigid and Flexible Persistence Scale (RFPS) is a self-report measure th...

    Authors: Evandro Morais Peixoto, Marcus Vinicius Silva, Ana Paula Porto Noronha, Tanya Chichekian and Robert J. Vallerand
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:1
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  3. One of the most significant human qualities is the ability to develop, implement, and flexibly maintain planned behaviour in order to achieve one’s goals. Self-regulation has become a relatively well-researche...

    Authors: Jitka Vaculíková, Ilona Kočvarová, Jan Kalenda, Zuzana Neupauer, Marija Cvijetić Vukčević and Anna Włoch
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:40
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  4. The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the physical and mental health of individuals. Measures required to prevent the spread of the virus, such as isolation, hygiene, mask use, and lockdown, led individuals...

    Authors: Aslı Kartol and Osman Söner
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:38
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  5. The Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI) is a new 60-item self-report scale developed to assess the specific components of psychological flexibility and inflexibility proposed in the Hex...

    Authors: Zahra Azadfar, Abbas Abdollahi, Indrajit Patra, Ya-Ping Chang, Tawfeeq Alghazali and Saad Ghazi Talib
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:32
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  6. Positive thinking is a form of positive cognition and a coping strategy. The Positive Thinking Scale (PTS) is used to measure positive thinking, but the reliability and validity of the PTS-Chinese have yet to ...

    Authors: Ching-Hui Chien and Yi-Wen Huang
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:31
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  7. In sports context, the motivational climate has been widely studied since 2000, when the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sports Questionnaire-2 (PMCSQ-2) was published. Evaluating athletes’ perceptions of th...

    Authors: Daniel Perez Arthur, Mayara Juliana Paes, Thais do Amaral Machado and Joice Mara Facco Stefanello
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:28
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  8. The Mood Disorders Questionnaire (MDQ) is a 3-item scale that is frequently used in bipolar disorders (BD) screening and questions the symptoms of BD, its effect on functionality, and the coexistence of sympto...

    Authors: Numan Konuk, Elif Karaahmet, Ülkem Angın, Alperen Kılıç and Zekeriya Kökrek
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:26
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  9. The family plays an essential role in the life of an adolescent. Hence, an acceptable understanding and an evaluation of family functioning is fundamental for effective interventions with adolescents in the ps...

    Authors: María I. Vegas, Manuel Mateos-Agut, Pedro J. Pineda-Otaola and Carlota Sebastián-Vega
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:18
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  10. Trust in automation plays a leading role in human-automation interaction. As there lack of scales measuring trust in automation in China, the purpose of this study was to adapt the trust between People and Aut...

    Authors: Jie Cai, Qian Sun, Zeyue Mu and Xiaoning Sun
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:15
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  11. The Spanish version of the 5-item Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS-5) is a brief measure of the general tendency to be attentive and aware of experiences in the present moment during daily life. The MAA...

    Authors: Mario Reyes-Bossio, Emilio Lafferrnaderie Zapparigli, Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, Carlos Carbajal-León, Luis Alberto Olavarria Castaman, Giovana Lourdes Hernandez Pino, Raymundo Calderon Sanchez and Sergio Barbosa-Granados
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:12
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  12. The understanding of how individuals manage their emotional experiences has flourished dramatically over the last decades, including assessing of emotion (dys)regulation. The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation...

    Authors: Patrícia Gouveia, Catarina Ramos, José Brito, Telma C. Almeida and Jorge Cardoso
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:11
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:19

  13. The traumatic event produces intolerable excitations to the psychic apparatus that searches to relief them through the production of symptoms. When established, patients with post-traumatic stress disorders (P...

    Authors: Taís Cristina Favaretto, Luciane Maria Both, Sílvia Pereira da Cruz Benetti and Lúcia Helena Machado Freitas
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:9
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  14. Self-handicapping strategies refer to the set of choices and attitudes adopted to minimize blame for failure and increase the value of success in achievement situations. This paper aims to describe the stages ...

    Authors: Evely Boruchovitch, Sueli Edi Rufini, Danielle Ribeiro Ganda, Lucia Cerqueira Miranda and Leandro Silva de Almeida
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:8
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  15. Phubbing is defined as ignoring other individuals by using a mobile phone during a face-to-face conversation. The Phubbing Scale (PS) was developed to assess this practice. In this study, we analyze the psycho...

    Authors: F. Javier García-Castro, Ana Maria Abreu, Belén Rando and María J. Blanca
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:7
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  16. Short-term memory is a dynamic psychological process that operates within a network in which non-verbal intelligence and attentional domains are connected. However, no consensus has been reached about which pr...

    Authors: Luis Anunciação, Anna Portugal, Ivan Rabelo and J. Landeira-Fernandez
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:35
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  17. The short version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) is a popular instrument used to assess quality of life. The objective of this study was to evaluate the following ...

    Authors: Sandra Lima-Castro, Paúl Arias-Medina, Alexandra Bueno-Pacheco, Eva Peña-Contreras, Mónica Aguilar-Sizer and Marcela Cabrera-Vélez
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:29
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  19. This study presents the development of the Psychosocial Uncertainty Scale (PS-US), which articulates the perception of uncertainty in the social context and its psychological experience. It was validated with ...

    Authors: Mariana Lucas Casanova, Lara S. Pacheco, Patrício Costa, Rebecca Lawthom and Joaquim Luís Coimbra
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:25
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  20. The Kessler Distress Scale (K10) is a self-report scale for the assessment of non-specific psychological distress in the general and clinical population. Because of its ease of application and good psychometri...

    Authors: Evandro Morais Peixoto, Daniela Sacramento Zanini and Josemberg Moura de Andrade
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:21
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  21. Collective efficacy, defined as a group’s shared belief about its conjoint capability to organize and execute courses of action, plays a pivotal role in understanding the dynamics of sports teams, since it inf...

    Authors: Mylena Aparecida Rodrigues Alves, Marcus Vinicius de Souza Lencina, Mayara Juliana Paes and Joice Mara Facco Stefanello
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:18
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  22. This study’s main purpose was to examine the psychometric properties of FoMOs’ adaptation among the Indonesian adolescents’ population. The second aim was to investigate the concurrent validity of the Indonesi...

    Authors: Dian Veronika Sakti Kaloeti, Ayu Kurnia S and Valentino Marcel Tahamata
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:15
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  23. The theoretical-methodological process of cross-cultural adaptation of scales is fundamental for the expansion of research possibilities related to a given area and population, as instrument adequacy allows fo...

    Authors: Ravine Carvalho Pessanha Coelho da Silva, Ana Carolina Soares Amaral, Augusta Karla Silva Quintanilha, Vitor Alexandre Rabelo de Almeida, Marcus Vinicius Freitas Rodrigues, Aldair J Oliveira and Fabiane Frota da Rocha Morgado
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:11
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:13

  24. Executive dysfunctions are central symptoms in different neurological, developmental, and context-related conditions. The assessment of these functions is then essential in neuropsychological pediatric clinica...

    Authors: Amanda Guerra, Izabel Hazin, Jean-Luc Roulin, Didier Le Gall and Arnaud Roy
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:6
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  26. Acculturation stress is associated with poorer physical and mental health and a lower level of psychological well-being. The causes of acculturation stress are diverse, but most are similar in the migrant popu...

    Authors: Alfonso Urzúa, Diego Henríquez, Alejandra Caqueo-Urízar and Vanessa Smith-Castro
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:3
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  28. Attitudes play a central role in intimate partner violence against women and are related to its origin, to the responses of women who suffer violence, and to the settings where it occurs. In fact, these attitu...

    Authors: Victoria A. Ferrer-Perez, Andrés Sánchez-Prada, Carmen Delgado-Álvarez and Esperanza Bosch-Fiol
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:27
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  29. Intellectual disability (ID) is a developmental disorder characterized by deficits in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

    Authors: Thais Selau, Mônia Aparecida da Silva, Euclides José de Mendonça Filho and Denise Ruschel Bandeira
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:26
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  31. Employees’ perceived opportunities to craft (POCs) influence actual job crafting behavior, which may have consequences for their well-being and work performance. This study aimed to validate the perceived opportu...

    Authors: Rita Pimenta de Devotto, Clarissa Pinto Pizarro de Freitas and Solange Muglia Wechsler
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:21
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  32. Evaluating patients in the acute phase of brain damage allows for the early detection of cognitive and linguistic impairments and the implementation of more effective interventions. However, few cross-cultural...

    Authors: Raira Fernanda Altmann, Karin Zazo Ortiz, Tainá Rossato Benfica, Eduarda Pinheiro de Oliveira and Karina Carlesso Pagliarin
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:18
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:23

  33. In the present study, we aimed to integrate unidimensional and multidimensional perspectives of the construct of the fear of personal death (FOPD). It has been assumed that (a) there is one general factor of F...

    Authors: Jarosław Jastrzębski, Radosław Rogoza and Sławomir Ślaski
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:16
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  34. There is no disease-specific instrument to measure the quality of life of significant others of cancer patients in Germany. In this study, we evaluated the reliability and construct validity of a German versio...

    Authors: Anna Tamara Ehmann, Cornelia Mahler and Nadja Klafke
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:15
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  35. The Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ) is one of the most investigated instruments for the evaluation of sociocultural pressure and internalization of the beauty standard, and it ...

    Authors: Clara Mockdece Neves, Juliana Fernandes Filgueiras Meireles, Fabiane Frota da Rocha Morgado, Ana Carolina Soares Amaral and Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:12
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  36. The aims of this study were to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory–Brazilian version (CBI-Br) in a sample of university professors and academic staff members of Brazilian p...

    Authors: Fernanda Ludmilla Rossi Rocha, Lilian Carla de Jesus, Maria Helena Palucci Marziale, Silvia Helena Henriques, João Marôco and Juliana Alvares Duarte Bonini Campos
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:11
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  37. The Experiences in Close Relationships (Brennan et al, Attachment theory and close relationships, 1998) questionnaire is one of the most widely used measures of adult romantic attachment. Despite the advantages o...

    Authors: Mónica Guzmán-González, Diana Rivera-Ottenberger, Audrey Brassard, Rosario Spencer and Marie-France Lafontaine
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:9
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  38. There has been scant research published regarding the assessment of depression in ethnic groups, and few studies have addressed the validation of scales for standardized assessment of depressive symptoms among...

    Authors: Lorena P. Gallardo-Peralta, Carmen Rodríguez-Blázquez, Alba Ayala-García and María João Forjaz
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:7
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  39. Entrepreneurial behavior is of great importance nowadays owing to its significance in the generation of economic, social, personal, and cultural wellbeing. This behavior is influenced by cognitive and personal...

    Authors: Álvaro Postigo, Marcelino Cuesta, Ignacio Pedrosa, José Muñiz and Eduardo García-Cueto
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:6
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  40. The holotropic mind perspective, an integral part of the framework of transpersonal psychology, has been considered a revolutionary approach to a certain spectrum of experiences in Non-ordinary states of consc...

    Authors: Daniela Martins Machado, Sheila Giardini Murta and Ileno Izídio da Costa
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:3
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  41. Negative cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients represent one of the barriers in the psychological help-seeking and treatment adherence. In Chile today, there is little research about specific beliefs t...

    Authors: Natalia Salinas-Oñate, María José Baeza-Rivera, Manuel Ortiz and Héctor Betancourt
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:2
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  42. This study presents the adaptation of the Uncertainty Response Scale (Greco & Roger, Pers. Individ. Differ, 31:519-534, 2001) to Portuguese. This instrument was administered to a non-clinical community sample ...

    Authors: Mariana Lucas Casanova, Lara S. Pacheco, Patrício Costa, Rebecca Lawthom and Joaquim L. Coimbra
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2019 32:23
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  43. STIs and HIV/AIDS are an important public health problem, transmitted by risky sex behaviours. In this context, it is necessary to identify protective factors, of those behaviours, as sexual self-concept. Sexu...

    Authors: Rodrigo Ferrer-Urbina, Geraldy Lorena Sepúlveda-Páez, Diego-Tomás Henríquez, Daniel Ignacio Acevedo-Castillo and Débora Alejandra Llewellyn-Alvarado
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2019 32:22
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  44. The aim of this study is to adapt the multidimensional in-group identification scale (MGIS) to the Brazilian context by gathering evidence of its psychometric properties. A total of 663 people from two samples...

    Authors: Luana Elayne Cunha de Souza, Tiago Jessé Souza de Lima, Luciana Maria Maia, Ana Beatriz Gomes Fontenele and Samuel Lincoln Bezerra Lins
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2019 32:19
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  46. Given that most young women with eating disorders do not receive treatment, implementing effective prevention programs is a public health priority. The Body Project is a group-based eating disorder prevention ...

    Authors: Ana Carolina Soares Amaral, Eric Stice and Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2019 32:13
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  47. Several studies have focused on the assessment of students’ motivation because this construct is very important to understand students’ learning and how to enhance it. The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnair...

    Authors: Marta Gomes, Vera Monteiro, Lourdes Mata, Francisco Peixoto, Natalie Santos and Cristina Sanches
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2019 32:8
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  49. This study evaluated the effects and impact of a multicomponent positive psychology program for health promotion of retirees. A quasi-experimental longitudinal design was used, and the baseline and end of inte...

    Authors: Helen Durgante and Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2019 32:6
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